Thursday, March 14, 2013

What's My Motivation?

Saw a cute cartoon about a dog. I like dog cartoons,especially where dogs talk.

They are preparing a commercial shoot where a dog is to do a simple dog food ad. His script is posted. All he is supposed to do is just read the card. But before the shoot, the dog turns to the director with a puzzled look. "What's my motivation?"he asks. He must have been a method actor.

So often people hesitate when they read the Bible, especially the Old Testament. "What's this mean? Why is she doing that?"

Can I make a suggestion? Just read it!

Learn about what people, even donkeys, say and do. People dream, talk with angels, make love, kill other people. If you just zoom through their stories, you can learn about people until they are like personal friends, or even enemies. Later, you can reflect on them, hear them explained, perhaps in the New Testament. But first get to know them. Figure them out later.

I feel that in older times, we did just that. Great insights were made, by knowing the characters in the Bible, as if they were family members. It's all right to read Genesis through and then, instead of moving ahead, to read it again.

It is said, that when Genesis is completed, you are halfway through the Bible, time wise. To think, the grave of Abraham, is well known, and preserved to this day.

Please, get to know the people of Genesis, without taking snippets out as little lessons right away. Just read the card.

Dedication

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Welcome. My name is Kymber and I have had the incredible good fortune to meet a new friend, The Last Robin.
We met through some funny circumstances over email and instantly became friends. We shared a bit about ourselves with each other and he also shared many of his stories. I was profoundly touched by his clear and elegant writing style, and also by the way he expressed complex ideas in such a simple manner. I knew that these stories needed to be shared with others!
I encouraged him to start a blog. He needed a bit of a push and a little more encouragement before finally agreeing to post all of his beautiful stories, his thoughts, ideas and musings. Trust me - he is a prolific writer AND has many, many ideas.
I hope that all of you who stop here will:
- appreciate the amount of time that The Last Robin has spent over the years writing his stories.
- come away after reading his stories and musings with a question or two in your hearts and minds with a different perspective.
- be as touched by his stories as I was after I first read some of them.
It gives me great honour and pleasure to introduce my friend, my Dear Uncle, The Last Robin.
Thank you to all who stop by!